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7 Impressive Twitter Customer Service/Brand Management Cases Image

7 Impressive Twitter Customer Service/Brand Management Cases

Matt | Friday, February 13th, 2009 6 comments

It’s no secret that Twitter continues to spread like wildfire. More and more businesses – small, medium, and large – are hopping on the Twitter bandwagon. Are they doing it for the right reasons? Well, some of them sure are.

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WordPress Plugin: Twitter ReTweet

Matt | Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 43 comments

I spent the last few hours scouring the net, searching for a WordPress plugin that we could use to output a basic, stylable link anywhere on a WordPress post or page which, when clicked, would allow our visitors to quickly and easily ReTweet (RT) the current post.

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CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free Image

CSS Image Rollovers: Accessible, Standard Compliant, Flicker-Free

Matt | Sunday, February 8th, 2009 17 comments

Although we thought this problem had been perfected years ago, we still manage to come across professional, high-trafficked websites using broken and outdated CSS image rollover techniques. This is absolutely unacceptable and unnecessary.

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10 Must-Have Drupal Modules for Drupal Web Developers

Chris | Monday, February 2nd, 2009 8 comments

Each Drupal developer out there has their own list of their “must-have” modules. These modules are the tarballs (.tar) that each developer downloads and unzips immediately after installing the Drupal CMS. The following list is partially mine and partially that of my Twitter followers.

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jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly

Chris | Saturday, January 24th, 2009 5 comments

A couple of weeks ago, a client of ours needed a simple way to select some or all options in a multiple select form element that contained hundreds of options. Basically, they had various State/County combination’s that they needed to assign to different pieces of content.

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11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter Image

11 Reasons Why a Web CMS Will Make Your Life Easier and Your Wallet Fatter

Matt | Monday, August 4th, 2008 18 comments

Nearly every website owner or web developer has asked this question at one time or another: Why should I use a Web Content Management System (WCMS)? If you value your time, money, and sanity, then there are several reasons why using a Web CMS is superior to hand-coding a website.

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The Official ‘Successful Website Checklist Challenge’

Matt | Monday, May 26th, 2008 39 comments

If your website doesn’t stand out and do a heck of a lot of things right, then chances are it’s going to crash and burn. Take our “Successful Website Checklist Challenge” (below) and see what you’re doing right, what you’re doing wrong, and what you’re forgetting to do. We’ve even included notes and resources for nearly every item on the checklist (just to make your life easier).

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